Meu aniversário está chegando! ...how the years fly....

That's right, my birthday is just around the corner, and I am super excited! It is hard to believe that another year has come and gone so quickly. I've heard that as you get older, the years seem to pass more quickly, but I am just coming to realize how true that is. I went to a high school graduation today, and as I watched my friend walk across the stage, I thought..."Wow, that was me just a year ago." A lot has happened in the last year...I graduated high school, became an adult, traveled to Brasil for the first time (and fell in love with the people and the country), I got my first and second tattoos, started and finished my first year of college, lived away from home , and of course many other minor things. It almost doesn't seem possible, but yet it is. The cool thing is: I'm so looking forward to all of the new things that will happen in my 19th year of life!